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Learnings from Coke: ‘Fans First’ slide share presentation via @yellif

By Alastair | Published: February 17, 2010
Coke's 'fans first' approach in social communities View more presentations from iStrategy. Posted via email from message not found
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I’ve always been impressed by the Microsoft Map technology

By Alastair | Published: February 14, 2010
I am little bit late on this but it’s still impressive. The Microsoft Maps Ted Talks I’m pretty sure I met this guy on a trip up to meet some of the engineers. Posted via email from message not found
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Interesting bit of brand interaction/reward from BMW on Facebook. via @jsmakr

By Alastair | Published: February 14, 2010
This quick video was made to celebrate half a million fans on facebook, I wonder what they will do when they get to one million.   via @jsmakr Posted via email from message not found
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love this idea and love the film about it

By Alastair | Published: February 8, 2010
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A little bit late with this, but it still makes me smile.

By Alastair | Published: February 8, 2010
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Through some ghetto research I would say Foursquare is gaining popularity

By Alastair | Published: January 22, 2010
I am just doing a little research on Foursquare for a project I am working on and I would say they are going through some pretty incredible growth. As of just now they have 282,606 users. There’s a pretty simple method of counting users via quora.com user @angusdav  To get an up to date answer, you can go to http://foursquare.com/user/-240000 and [...]
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An amazing photo of the snowy British Isles from space

By Alastair | Published: January 8, 2010
Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response via http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8447023.stm Posted via email from message not found
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Armadillos – crunchy on the outside, smooth on the inside. Classic UK ad.

By Alastair | Published: January 4, 2010
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Not a bad way to end this year. Happy new year good riddance to last year.

By Alastair | Published: December 31, 2009
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Amazing numbers for facebook connect – 60m users per month

By Alastair | Published: December 9, 2009
“Sites like the Huffington Post have seen a 500% increase in Facebook referrals after implementing Facebook Connect, says Beard.” http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/09/60-million-people-a-month-use-facebook- connect/ Via techcrunch Posted via email from message not found
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